I got a text from my friend Mike McKee, very early in the morning last Friday. I was planning to meet him in Moses Lake that morning to do some perch fishing. We were going to launch his boat at Blue Heron Park and run down to the I-90 Bridge. Here we would anchor and fill our buckets with perch. However, he caught some kind of bug and couldn’t go. Well, I was already rigged up and the truck was loaded with my gear, so I went anyway. On the way down I decided to check on the perch fishing on Winchester Wasteway at the bridge on Road 5. This used to be a great spot to fish for perch in the winter. The good news is there are perch here again. The bad news is that they are about 3 inches long. I proceeded to Blue Heron Park. There were several anglers on the rip rap bank, but no one on the bridge. I decided to try it from the bridge and had an 11-inch perch in my bucket on my first cast. It took me another fifteen or twenty minutes to get another one though, so I packed it in and headed for home. This may be my last chance to fish here if the weather forecast proves true. Single digit temperatures will put a layer of ice on Moses Lake for a while.